Early Monday Morning

June 4th, 2012

After pulling up in the the parkinglot, I finally started getting those first day jitters. My stomach was in knots and my head was spinning.

Don't pass out Bella, don't pass out.

And as if that moment couldn't get any worse, my phone started to ring, the ringtone automaticlly letting me know who was calling.

Mike Newton, my...fiancee.

I shuddered.

"Hello?" I asked, answering the phone. I could hear Mike breathing annoyingly loud into the phone, like always.

"Bella Bella!" He said using that stupid nickname he gave me. "Alice told me you got that job at that zoo."

Fucking Alice.

"The San Diego Zoo. It isn't just 'that zoo'" I said, already annoyed.

"Yeah yeah. Well I just wanted to call and wish you luck."

I stopped short for a second, suprised at his genuine words to me.

"Oh, and I was wondering if you wanted to come over and fuck tonight."

I stand corrected. Already feeling that ball of fire in my stomach I got whenever Mike was being an asshole, I rolled my eyes and continued walking.

"Good bye Mike!" I said and before I got the chance to hang up, I heard him shout, "IS THAT A YES?"

I pushed end.

Mike. Fucking. Newton.

We dated for about three years during college, but only because hewas that jock every girl wanted to fuck and every guy wanted to be. So of course when he started showing me attention, I jumped on that.

BIG mistake.

I digress.

Whenever I got the chance to finally break up with him, he's buy me something really expensive, and I didn't wanna be the bitch that did that kind of shit. So I held off a little longer.

And then about 9 months ago, he got down on one knee, all sweaty and nervous and stuttering over every word, and proposed.

Oh, God, I wanted to say FUCK NO!

But the kid did it in front of our moms who had been best friends since me and Mike were in diapers.

So of course, I agreed.

Ugh.

And now here we were, 9 months later, and I'm ready to hit him in the face with a baseball bat.

But before I could even finish thinkging out how I wanted to hurt him, I heard an older man calling my name.

I turned to see Elezar, the man I spoke with on the phone, waving me over.

"Bella Swan, I'm Elezar Harvey. We talked on the phone Sunday."

"Oh, yes, morning ."

"Please, call me Elezar. is my father."

"Well good morning Elezar." I smiled, shaking his hand. He was wearing a larger version of the same unifrom as me, and he had sunglasses covering his eyes. His dark hair has grey flecks all over, showing his obvious wear and tear over the years.

"Morning Swan. Now, if you follow me I'll take you to our work room where you can meet your new coworkers." He smiled at me and turned on his heel towards a small building. I followed him in and looked around at the zebra printed walls-cute-and animal print chairs.

"Guys, this is our newbie, Bella Swan. Bella, this is Rosalie Hale, she works with the elephants."

The gorgeous Barbie doll blonde smiled polietly at me, stood from her chair and stuck out her hand for me to shake it.

"Nice to meet you" I said.

"Likewise." She smiled again.

"Bella, meet Emmett McCarty. Emmett works in the reptile house. He's also the biggest dope ever."

I laughed and Emmett gave me a huge toothy smile before pulling me into a hug. He was definitly a good foot and a half taller than me and his curly black hair bounced with every move.

Damn, he's pretty good looking.

"Em, babe, put the poor girl down." Rosalie laughed before smacking his arm. Emmett dropped me with another smile.

Elezar laughed and looked around. "Where's Edward?"

"He went down to the nursery with Jessica. Said he wanted to check on Solane again." Emmett responded, grabing a mug off the counter. "Hey, it was great to meet you Bella, but it's time for me and my Rosie to get to work. We'll see you around!" He said, pulling Rosalie against his side. She laughed and punched his arm.

"C'mon you ass, lets go."

"Bye guys." I said.

Elezar turned back to me as they left and smiled. "Good people. Now come on, I'll show you to the nursery so you can meet Edward and a couple of the other staff members."

~SMTL~

I could hear voices as Elezar slid his ID into the lock by the door. Inside the voices were mingled with a purring noise.

"How is she doing now?" A smooth male voice said, sounding concerned.

"Better. That name you gave her certainly fits her just right." A giggiling girl responded.

We turned the corner and there was two figures there. They heard us and turned around, revealing their faces. The man was-

Holy fuck.

He had copper hair, standing in every direction giving him that sexy I just got outta bed look. And his eyes-electric green. Vibrant. Bright. Dancing.

Gorgeous.

Can guys be gorgeous?

I looked at him again.

Yes, yes they can.

And then that bubbly bleach blonde jumped up and down and practiclly screamed "HI! I'm Jessica Stanely. But just call me Jess! I work in the nursery with the cubs. I feed the babies and clean them and nurse the sick ones back to health! Are you new here? Are you working with the cats too? That's what Edward does. Are you going to be working with him? That would be so cool! Then you could come out with us for dinner and stuff! We have dinner a lot together. It's just a staff thing. Usually it's me, Eddie, Rose, Em, Tyler, Nicole, Ben, Maggie, Irina, David, Eric, John, Ian, Steph, Carmen and Elezar. It would be soo much fun if you could come along. And, then we could-"

"Jessica, breath." The fuck hot guy said, laughing. "Hi, I'm Edward Cullen ma'am." He said, sticking his hand out.

"Bella Swan." I blushed, grabbing his hand.

"Nice to meet you." He winked.

"Yeah...uh-"

Thankfully Elezar stepped in and saved my ass.

"Cullen, you and Swan are gunna start working together."

Or so I thought.

Edward smiled sweetly to me. "Can't wait."

Oh, me either.

~SMTL~

June 4th

Late Monday Night

"Woah woah WOAH! You mean to tell me that you got to spend ALL day with your cats AND a sexy man?" Ali asked excitedly.

"Oh yeah. You should have been there, Al. I'm working with amazing people, one of which has got to be the hottest thing I have ever seen-and by hottest thing, I mean like if Chris Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Channing Tatum and Chace Crawford had a love child...Edward Cullen would be that love child."

"Well damn Bells. Those are like the three hottest guys. Even though that Josh Hutcherson thing is kinda creepy. The kid is like, 19!"

"Yeah, Al, but have you seen his JAW?"

We stopped and looked at each other before erupting into a laughing fit.

"We are...so...creepy!" Ali said between gasps of air.

"Tell me...about it!" I responded and we fell ontop of each other, clutching our sides.

~SMTL~

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